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Souvenir Album of Atlanta 

Issued bv the Citv and Chamber of Commerce in Compliment to 

The National Association of Manufacturers 




Program 



TUESDAY, May 16. 1905, 



9:00 A. M. — Opening Exercises at the Cirand Opera House. 
Prayer. 

Address of Welcome by Gftvernor J. M. Terrell. 
Addre.ss of Welcome by Mayor James G. Woodward. 
Address of Welcome by Hon. John Temple Graves. 
Rcs])onse by President i) . JI. Parrv. 



First Businkss Sk.ssiox ok the Convkntion: 

Report by Interstate Commerce Committee. 

Address by Mr. l.udwig Nissen on Governmental Relation to Public 

Franchises. 
Address by Samuel Spencer, President of the Southern Railwav. 
3 P. M. — Second Session: 

Report by Connnittee on Tariff and Reciprocity. 
.\ddre.ss by Mr. Iv. N. Foss. 

Report by Connnittee on Indu,slrial Education. 
Addre.ss .Viiaiiist the Repeal of the National liankruptcy I.avv. 
EvKNixr.. — Reception to Members of the National A.ssociation of Manufacturers 
at the Capital City Club, from 9:00 to 12: o'clock. 



THE NEW PASSEN- 
GER DEPOT. OPEN- 
ED MAY 15, I905, 
AT MITCHELL ST., 
AND MADISON AVE.. 
USED BY THE 
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
THE CENTRAL OF 
GEORGIA AND THE 
ATLANTA & WEST 
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WEDNESDAY. May 17, 1905. 

9:ix) A. M.— Third Session. 

Report by Fire Insurance Committee. 

Adtlre.* bv -Mr. K.iwanl Atkin.son on Fire I'rotection. 

Addres.s by Mr. I). A. Tompkins on the Present and I-uture of Cotton 
from the Plantation to the Loom. 
Noon.— Georgia Karbecue, i2:uo to 3:00 o'clock. 
3:00 P. M. — FlH-KTH .Skssion : 

Report by Strike Insurance Committee. 

Addre.ss l)y James A. Kmery, San I'rancisco. 

Address by Daniel Davenport, or another, on the Necessity of Organiza- 
tion. National and Local, l,y the Manufacturers and the People, 

Report by Committee on Patents and Patent Laws. 



THE CAPtTOL 



THURSDAY. May 18 1905. 

9:00 A. M. — I'li-TH Session. 

Report by Committee on National Incorporation. 
Miscellaneous nusine.ss. 
Adjournment. 
AfTKRnoon. — Four thirty to seven tliirty o'clock — Reception at the Piedmont I)riviiij( 

Club in Honor of vSecretary and Mrs. Victor H. iletcalf. 
RvKNiNf.. — Kight O'clock — .\ddress by Hon. Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary 
Department of Commerce and L,abor, introduced by Hon. Alexander 
Stephens Clay, I'nited States Senator from Cieorjjia. 



A FEW OF ATLAN- 
TA'S SKYSCRAPERS 
LOOKING NORTH 
OVER BROAD STREET 
BRIDGE 



THE GEORGIA INSTI- 
TUTE OF TECHNOL- 
OGY FROM NORTH 
AVENUE 




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Committee of Arrangements. 

ROHERT F. MADDOX, 

President of the Chamber of Coiiiinerce, General Chairman. 

MAYOR JAMES G. AVOOinVARI). 



Committee of Councii.. the fourth 

NATIONAL BANK 

E. \". CARTER, Chairman. building. 



PEACHTREE Ah D 



E. C. ri-TERS, JO.SEl'H HIRSCH, 

... ,, ,, . .r>^T-,, ..,,v MARIETTA STREETS 

J. vSII) HOLLAND. \V. H. P.VrTERSON. 



CoMMITTKK FROM THE Ch.\MBER OK COMMERCE. 
J. WIUE I'OPE. Chairman. 
SAMUEU. L). JONES, R. S. \VE;SSEI.,S, 

DAVID WOODWARD. E. J. PAXON. 

W. G. COOPER, Trea.surer. 



Atlanta the Birthplace of the National Association of 

Manufacturers. 

The following editorial appeared in "DIXIK, " October (1894) issue, and 
is the original suggestion for the National Association of Manufacturers : 

"MANrKACTUKKKS MusT Okgaxize. — To properly undertake the develop- 
ment of trade relations with Mexico and South America, our manufacturers should 
organize for the work. Whether international expositions are to be held or other 

plans adopted, this organization is essential and necessary. The individual influ- peachtree. hous- 

ence and strength of the members of such an organization would thus become I°L™ '"'^°'' 

co-operative, and could be centered, with powerful force, for the passage of favor- 
able reciprocal treaties, suitable tariff laws, and for the establishment of more per- 
fect transportation facilities. The envoy of stich an organization could present his 
credentials to the go\-ernment of our sister republics with the assurance of prompt 
recognition. The agent of this association of manufacturers sent to do any special 
duty would have a liacking that would command attention and success. Such an 
organization could gather information for its members that individuals would be 
unable to get on account of expense, and, more than this, a permanent organiza- 
tion of manufacturers would prevent a halt in the movement for trade extension. 



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For iiistaiicf, if an exposition is held in the Cit.\- of Mexico, its completion would 
find the manufacturers still in active organization, and the work of hoIdinR other 
expositions in South America, or doing whatever seemed best at that time, for the 
interest of international trade, could be conducted by the same organization, whose 
officers would have the benefit of experience gained in the past. In view of the 
foregoing, "DIXIE" now suggests that a National Association of Manufacturers 
be organized, and in order that this a.ssociation may be advantageou.sly organized 
and its objects have thorough discussion, we propose a' convention of all interested 
manufacturers. As to where and when the manufacturers should meet, we have 
no suggestion to offer further than to say that the meeting place should be in .some 
city as convenient as po.ssible to the men who will compose the convention, and its 
date should be as early as possible." 

This editorial was written by Mr. T. H. Martin, of Atlanta, then editor and 
publi.sher of "DIXIK." He sent marked copies of it to hundreds of manufacturers 
in all parts of the United States, a.sking them to suggest a place for the convention. 
These intpiiries were answered by a large number and the majority was given in 
fa\"or of Cincinnati. 

Mr. Thomas I'. Ivagan, of that cit\-, was dul\- advised and called the manu- 
facturers of the cit>- together at a banquet. Around the festive board a large fund 
was raised for entertainment and a call was issued for the manufacturers of the 
I'uited States to meet on the 22nd of Januar\-, 1895, at Cincinnati. On that date 



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five lunidred representative men came together and organized the National Associa- 
tion of Manufacturers. Mr. Thomas P. Eagan was elected president, and Mr. 
T. H. Martin became the first secretary. 

Following is an extract from the minutes of the first meeting of the National 
Association of Manufacturers: 

"Hon. W. S. Shallenberger, of Pittsburg, introduced the following resolu- 
tion, which was greeted with loud applause and adopted b>- a rising vote: 

" 'Whereas, the publishers of 'DIXIE,' the Southern industrial journal, first suggested 
the organization of the National Association of Manufacturers, and the success of tliis conven- 
tion is largely the result of their direct effort, be it 

" 'Resolvei), That the thanks and congratulations of this Association, in convention 
assembled, be tendered to 'DIXIE ' " 



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BUILDING. BROAD 
AND WALTON STS. 



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ATLANTA 

Zl TL-ANTA is on the crest of the ridge that divides the water- 
shed of the Atlantic from that of the Gulf, and an altitude of 
1,050 feet above sea level gives the city a bracing atmosphere, which is 
conducive to vigor of body and mind. The people are remarkably 
energetic, and this is evident to the visitor in the first glance that he 
gets from the car windows. 

The vigor of the people has made Atlanta a leader among cities. 
No matter what the occasion may be, Atlanta's representatives are 
always at the front in any company. For man)- years this city has 
been an open forum for the South in the discussion of great questions 
and the solution of the problems of the time. Here the great men of the 



country were accustomed to address the people in tlie earlier days, and 
still they meet here in times when the newspaper has usurped the 
functions of the popular leader. Atlanta's newspapers are easily the 
first in the South, and the lawyers, ministers and professional men 
rank high among their fellows. Naturally, the city is a center of pro- 
gress and development. 

A great many people have the impression that Atlanta is a 
Northern city in the heart of the South, and it is frequently compared 
to Chicago or New York. As a matter of fact, about 95 per cent, of 
its people were born in tiie Southern States. 

There are within the citv limits 111,000 people, and with the 
suburbs the community has 125,000. The proportion of those en- 



THE JEWISH TEMPLE. 
SOUTH PRYOR 
STREET 



THE CARNEGIE 
LIBRARY, 
CARNEGIE PLACE 
AND NORTH FOR- 
SYTH STREET 



gaged in gainful occupations is very large and the steady industry and 
order of the population are the guaranties of continued prosperity. 

The interest wliich attaches to Atlanta's past has drawn to the 
city thousands of men who helped to make historj- here many years 
ago. This constant visitation has caused Atlanta to be talked about as 
no other Southern city has been during the life of this generation. 

Another attraction is the magical growth wliich has never halted 
and never been fully explained, but seems to have in it something dis- 
tinctive and different from the rise of any other community. There 
is an indescribable something about the city which impresses every 
stranger and tills the mind of the citizen with enthusiasm. 

This psychological asset is perhaps the greatest that the cit}' 



THE SECOND 
BAPTIST CHURCH, 
WASHINGTON AND 
MITCHELL STREETS 



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has, and a transcendent quality of it is that it can not be quenched 
by adversity nor burned out with fire. 

A distinguished visitor at the Atlanta Exposition declared that the 
region surrounding this city is the most American part of America. 
The masterful spirit of the Anglo-Saxon is manifest here in the mag- 
nificent reconstruction of a city that was burned to the ground forty 
years ago. In the surrounding country the rising tide of industry has 
overflowed and obliterated the scars of war. General Sherman's army 
destroyed a hundred millions of property on its march through Georgia, 
and it took many years to make good the loss, but now the State pro- 
duces, in one year, enough cotton and cotton goods to pay the enor- 
mous indemnity of that campaign. 



THE GRADY 

STATUE. MARIETTA 

STREET 

HENRY GRADY WAS 

THE INCARNATION 

OF "THE ATLANTA 

SPIRIT." 



THE GRADY 
HOSPITAL. 
BUTLER STREET 



General Sherman was impressed with Atlanta's strategic import- 
ance, and pointed out that any port of the Gulf or the South Atlantic 
could be reached from here in twelve hours. The city became 
headquarters for the Department of the Gulf during the Spanish war, 
and an effort was afterwards made to remove these headquarters to 
another point, but the government, profiting by that experience, has 
finally fixed their seat here. 

The topographic conditions which gave Atlanta its importance in 
war have made it the railway and commercial center of the Southeast. 

Atlanta stands at a point where the Eastern traffic, flowing down 
the Appalachain, chain meets in confluence the great stream of com- 
merce from the West to the Southern seaboard . The vast traffic of East 



THE CAPITAL CITY 

CLUB, 

PEACHTREE STREET 



THE GRAND OPERA 
HOUSE. 

JUNCTION PRYOR 
AND PEACHTREE 
STREETS 



and West which flows into Atlanta radiates thence through the 
Southeast. Thus, from a railway point of view, Atlanta holds a 
commanding position. The city has thus become the headquarters 
for a large part of the railroad business done in the Southeastern States. 

As the metropolis of the Piedmont region, Atlanta will profit 
by the great stimulus to trade and industry which will come from the peachtree and 

opening of the Panama canal. There are already large exports of 
cotton goods to China from Georgia and the Carolinas, and this trade 
will grow rapidly when the short route to the Pacific is opened. 

From Cincinnati, the Ohio River gateway of the productive Mid- 
dle West, the shortest practicable route to the Panama canal, is through 



PrEDMONT HOTEL. 
PEACHTREE AND 
LUCKIE STREETS 



Atlanta, and the Louisville and Nashville Railway has spent many 
millions in building a new trunk line between these cities. The South- 
ern Railway, the Central of (Georgia, and other S3-stems are connecting 
up their trunk lines through Atlanta to the Gulf and this city is on the 
great highway of American goods moving southward to the sea. 

In anticipation of the iinmense growth of business, the railroad 
companies are spending several millions to enlarge their terminal facil- tur streets 

ities in and aroimd Atlanta. The beautiful new passenger depot has 
just been completed by the Southern Railway and associated Hues, 
and large extensions of freight terminals are being made by the South- 
ern and the Louisville & Nashville systems. 

The system of local transit, covering 140 miles of electric railway. 



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is one of the best in the country, and is probably the mist extensive 
for a city of Athmta's size. This has caused a rapid extension of the 
residence district and beautiful homes have been erected several miles 
beyond the city limits in several directions. 

Atlanta is the most accessible city in the South, and for this reason 
tlie stream of travel is constantly increasing. There are seventy-nine 
towns of 4,000 population and upward in Georgia, the Carolinas, Ala- 
bama and Mississippi. The average distance of these towns from 
Atlanta is 281 miles, which is 80 to 170 miles less than the distance 
from the next nearest important centers. 

Atlanta is southern headquarters for most of the great national 
corporations that do business in this section. It is the third insurance 



THE MAJESTIC. 
PEACHTREE STREET 



THE ARAGON, 
PEACHTREE STREET 



center of the country and easily the first in the South. Railways, tel- 
egraphs, telephones and many such interests have here their head- 
quarters for from five to twelve States. 

Steel and stone skyscrapers have shot up in rapid succession and 
the heart of the city looks like the lower part of Manhattan Island. 
There is no other city in the South that has the metropolitan appear- 
ance Atlanta presents. It has one square mile that can hardly be 
equaled anywhere on this continent outside of New York, Chicago 
and Philadelphia. 

Business is growing twice as fast as population, although the in- 
habitants are increasing three times as fast as they are in the country 



CAPITOL VIEW, 
TOWER OF THE 
SECOND BAPTIST 
CHURCH IN THE 
DISTANCE 



A GLIMPSE OF 
PEACHTREE STREET 
NEAR THE GOVERN- 
OR'S MANSION 



at large. 



The growth of the city is b}* no means confined to office build- 
ings. The manufactured products of Atlanta have increased from 
seventeen to thirty millions since the last census (1900^. There are 
nearl)- twice as many wage workers and the citj' is constantly crowded 
with well-to-do strangers who have come to engage in business. The 
banks are loaded with deposits, and one member of the Clearing 
House has as much as all six of them had ten years ago. Atlanta's 
importance as a business center is indicated by the fact that Georgia 
produces a cotton crop worth ninety millions, or more than the gold 
product of the entire country. The States making up the south- 
eastern group, of which Atlanta is the natural center, produce a cot- 
ton crop worth about three hundred milHons and turn out cotton goods 



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OFFICERS QUARTERS 
IN FOREGROUND. 
BARRACKS IN THE 
DISTANCE 



worth over one hundred milhons. The supply business for all this 
vast industry is immense, and Atlanta gets a large share of it. 

A strong feature of Atlanta's industry is its variety. The people 
are hospitable to new ideas and not fastened in old grooves. Home 
industries are well patronized, and the percentage of success in new 
industries is very high. 

The activity of the Chamber of Commerce has had a happy effect 
upon the spirit of unity and co-operation among business men. A cus- 
tom of frequent meeting to talk over matters of general welfare or 
mutual concern has developed the businessmenof ihiscity ina remark- 
able way. The Chamber of Commerce has on commercial Atlanta 
very much the same influence which the New England town meeting 



THE HOME OF 
GEN. JOHN B. GOR- 
DON, WHICH WAS 
REPRODUCED AS 
THE "GEORGIA 
BUILDING" AT THE 
WORLD'S FAIR 



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ORPHANAGE, 
WASHINGTON ST. 



had on the sturdy pioneers in the land of steady habits. This inthience 
is educational along the line of robust self-government and co-opera- 
tion, and in the midst of the contact of minds a superb spirit of civic 
pride is generated. 

Atlanta, is a clean, well governed city. The tax rate is only 
I J^ per cent, on a moderate valuation of property, which aggregates 
$63,229,577. The bonded debt of $3,541,500 is less than the con- 
stitutional limit by a million and a quarter. It is covered by a sinking 
fund which provides for the payment of all bonds within 30 years 
from the date of issue. 

The fire, police, sanitary and other departments are economi- 
cally administered and ablj' managed by efficient chiefs, with the sup- 
port of able boards of business men. 



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The city is divided into eight wards, each represented by one 
alderman and two councilmen. On all appropriations a majority of 
the aldermanic board and the council in separate session must be 
given . 

The water supply is taken from the Chattahoochee river, clarified 
in a settling basin and tiltered before being pumped into the city. The 
rate to residents is 60 cents a month for each house, and for manu- 
facturers 6 cents per thousand gallons in large quantity. 

Electric power for varied industries is available in and around At- 
lanta through the development of a large water power on the Chatta- 
hoochee river, 18 miles from the cit}-, at Morgan Falls, where a mas- 
sive masonry and concrete dam has been built by the Atlanta Water 



MORGAN FALLS 
DAM AND POWER 
PLANT 



and Electric Power Co., and machinery has been installed for the de- 
velopment of water power and its transformation into electric current, 
which is transmitted to Atlanta. 

About 11,000 horse power is thus made available. Part of it is 
used by the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, and the remain- 
der is distributed to manufacturers by the same concern. 

Atlanta is the greatest pubHcation center in the South. The 
records of the Post-Office Department show that the various publica- 
tions pay the Government more on second-class matter than it re- 
ceives from Baltimore, Buffalo, Louisville, New Orleans or Omaha. 
In other respects the records of the post-otKce show a remarkable 
growth. The difference between postal orders issued and those paid 



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in Atlanta leaves a balance of about $1,250,000 in the city's favor. 
This is evidence of a thrifty mail-order business, which has sprung 
up in the last few years and is yet in its infancy. A great factor in 
the upbuilding of the city is its civic pride. However they may be 
divided on all other questions, the people are a unit on everjthing that 
affects the prosperity of the city. This sentiment is so pronounced 
that it was long ago emphasized by the name ''Atlanta spirit," and the 
appeal to this spirit is never in vain. 

In some respects this city is the most important educational cen- 
ter of the South. About 14,000 pupils are enrolled in the public 
schools and 5,000 students are entered in institutions of higher 
education. The finest polytechnic institution in the South is the 



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Georgia "Tech," and its graduates hold important positions all over 
the world. There are 140 churches, four theaters, several libraries, 
numerous parks, and many beautiful residence streets. Green grass, 
spacious lawns and shade trees which arch the streets in many places, 
are features which add much to the charm of Atlanta homes. 

Atlanta has for many years been known as the Convention City 
of the South, and the city has some of the best hotels in the United 
States. The Piedmont, Kimball and Aragon all entertained Presidents 
of the United States, and the Majestic and Marion are well known. 

The expression "Atlanta air is like champagne," sprang from the 
brain of a local enthusiast who has never tasted that beverage, but the 
revelation is nevertheless inspired, and many there be who will attest 
its truth. 



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FLOUR MILL. WITH 
THE CAPITOL IN 
THE DISTANCE 



Athinta has long been noted for its delightful climate, and the city 
has become a great resort of tourists and health-seekers. It is hard 
for people from higher latitudes to realize that Atlanta is a summer 
resort, cooler by far than the average American City. There are sum- 
mers here as elsewhere, but not long ones, and the nights are almost 
always cool and breezy. V'er}- few even of the days are uncomfort- 
ably warm. 

The suburbs, so easily accessible in every direction by rapid transit, 
are pictures of restfulness and refreshment. There are golf links, 
beautiful drives, lakes, and a beautiful country club known as tlie 
Piedmont Driving Club. 



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